Hi, I got a welcome message from Gabriel Leopardi to introduce myself, so here I am

I'm 18 years old an playing guitar for a bit more than two and a half years. I learned electric guitar by myself and some of my favorite bands are Dream Theater, Metallica, Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold.

At the moment I try to improve my Alternate Picking and Sweep Picking skills, because I want to play these hard Solos of John Petrucci, but I'm still far away from his technique. So I'm gonna practice more stuff like that till i'm able to play things like this: http://youtu.be/V6k1VdgNeKE?t=4m39s

I have a first suggestion for you - a lesson which is very fit in working out your alternate picking skills and your understanding of rhythmic subdivisions. Please let me know if it's too easy for you and it would be totally awesome if you could share some recordings with us. We would know a lot better what suggestions we can make, in order to help you out

Hey there Yannick! Wellcome at GMC You can count on our support - don't hasitate to ask for anything. You can create Your own forum topics or send us a private messages. You can also have a mentoring thread with choosen instructor to make a detailed workout on some particular technique

As you can see, introducing here is a great idea! We are ready to help you and guide you in this learning process. We have a lot of amazing stuff to help you to master the licks that John is playing in that video.

I'm playing the first two lessons at about 95 bpm, and the third at 85 bpm, because my little finger is a bit too weak to play it faster. For Sweep Picking I'm working on the 'Sweep Picking Lesson' by Muris Varajic at 145 bpm.

I've viewed the lesson that Cosmin mentioned, but I think thats a bit too easy for me.

Welcome!!! You've come to the right place Join me every Sunday in the video chat room for tons of lessons/drills on Alternate picking and Shredding in general The schedule is on the front page of this site. Just scroll down till you see it.

Todd

QUOTE (yannick95 @ Aug 22 2013, 07:20 AM)

Hi, I got a welcome message from Gabriel Leopardi to introduce myself, so here I am

I'm 18 years old an playing guitar for a bit more than two and a half years. I learned electric guitar by myself and some of my favorite bands are Dream Theater, Metallica, Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold.

At the moment I try to improve my Alternate Picking and Sweep Picking skills, because I want to play these hard Solos of John Petrucci, but I'm still far away from his technique. So I'm gonna practice more stuff like that till i'm able to play things like this: http://youtu.be/V6k1VdgNeKE?t=4m39s